10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2014
From a birder’s perspective however, this is both a shame and a blessing, as I will show below based on my observations of the species on the island of Java in November. The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. Other birders might however owe their very lives to this neglect.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles. You may not get the species counts that the race delivers, but you’ll have memories burned into your skull. Ugandan Mangabeys were part of my family once.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2018
It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. For hummingbirds, though, since cooperation leads to quick starvation, they ain’t no such thing as a team! I’m pretty sure they are!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
Getting to know the subtleties in differences between closely related species takes years of dedication and practice. Thirdly, many species of shorebirds display such vast differences in their summer and winter plumages that it is always interesting to note how some birds in the same flock are in contrasting stages of plumage.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2014
Every spring they totally steal the show in the northeast and you really can’t blame birders for abandoning their jobs, their families, and their sanity as they rush to New York City’s abundant and amazing parks to see the show live and in technicolor. And, of course, the wood-warblers. Northern Parula. American Redstart.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2015
I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. My only regret in all of this, and it’s not an insignificant one, was that I had neglected to reset my camera before this thing came upon me.
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